“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”
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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
